There’s little about Crazy Town’s aesthetic or music - frozen-in-amber rap-rock ripped straight from the Bush era - that’s up for serious critical reevaluation even when considering the nu-metal leanings of pop superstar Post Malone, their legacy is largely nonexistent, and there’s been little indication of a follow-up to The Brimstone Sluggers. Minus their Instagram usage, the band’s social-media presence mostly exists to get the job done when it comes to promotion. Their official website is littered with broken links. Taking to their own IG comments to offer general goings-on context is perhaps the most contemporary aspect of Crazy Town’s current form. At its peak, one of nu metal’s defining characteristics was its ultramasc tendency to cast oneself as constantly under siege, fighting the good fight against forces both institutional and unseen after multi-instrumentalist Bret “Epic” Mazur’s departure in 2017 marked the last vestiges of Crazy Town’s founding lineup (save Binzer) coming to an end, the band tacked on an “X” to the end of their name, elaborating on Instagram that the designator “symbolizes a territory that has just been won.” Not even a collab with Rivers Cuomo - who lent his guitar skills to Darkhorse single “Hurt You So Bad” in the wake of his own goodwill-murder spree following Weezer’s return from hiatus - could move the figurative needle.īetween that album and The Brimstone Sluggers, there’s been promise of albums having never materialized, from 2008’s Crazy Town Is Back to the pre– Brimstone Sluggers work-in-progress Megatron. The band’s biggest hit, 2000’s megaubiquitous “Butterfly,” also counts as their only one despite the slippery single’s cross-continental chart-topping appeal, Crazy Town never came close to replicating its success. Well, it’s actually a little more complicated than that: For most of this century - from the band’s 2002 sophomore flop Darkhorse to 2015’s comeback attempt The Brimstone Sluggers - Crazy Town has existed mostly in stasis, with factors ranging from Binzer’s struggles with drug addiction and his failed shot at a solo career to the accidental overdose of late early-era member Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein and a near-constant personnel shift featuring enough former members to repopulate the Polyphonic Spree. Making it in the music industry is hard enough for bands that manage to maintain a low level of success and attention, commercial or otherwise in their 24-year existence, front man Seth “Shifty Shellshock” Binzer and his revolving door of rap-rock compatriots haven’t come close to achieving such a level of consistency - but, nevertheless, they’ve persisted. On a basic, human level, you’d have to be cruel to sneer at Crazy Town for continuing to exist. Photo: Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns via Getty Images Crazy Town on a much bigger stage than the one we’re about to talk about.
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